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Item The 1957 crop season was good on the Columbia Basin Project.(UNPUBLISHED, 1958-01) UnknownResults of the 1957 year for agriculture, including a table, "the acreage, yield, price per unit and percent of total value of 42 crops grown on the Columbia Basin Project in 1957.Item Annual meteorological summary with comparative data, 1930, Yakima, Washington.(Weather Bureau Office, 1931) Jones, Edwin H.Issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Weather Bureau. Includes a summary for 1930, monthly and annual precipitation, seasonal snowfall, monthly and annual mean temperature, extremes of temperature, and frost data.Item Annual meteorological summary with comparative data, 1938, Yakima, Washington.(U. S. Government Printing Office, 1936) Anderson, Ivan E.Issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Weather Bureau. Includes a summary for 1938, comparative data and extremes, monthly and annual mean temperature, and monthly and annual precipitation.Item Bulletin 2: summary of the survey of the noxious weeds in the State of Washington.(UNPUBLISHED, 1947-02-21) McMinimee, W. C.Bulletin produced by the state Department of Agriculture. Includes a list of noxious weeds in the state, and a survey of the most noxious weeds, with a diagram of the state divided by county.Item Eolative soils of Washington wheat lands.(Geological Publishing Company, 1925-04) MacMacken, Joseph G.Author's name corrected on front cover, and verified to be Joseph and not John. Gives a geological explanation of the soil makeup in Central Washington.Item Farmer Cooperatives, article from Taxes - The Tax Magazine.(UNKNOWN, 1947-03) Foley, Paul J.Article on farmer cooperatives, as they relate to the federal corporate income tax. Focus on "the requisites of organizations which may be given exemptions."Item Farmers' bulletin no. 1934: tomato diseases.(U. S. Government Printing Office., 1943-06) Doolittle, S. P.Lengthy discussion of a variety of tomato diseases, including photographs. Divided up into diseases caused by bacteria and fungi, virus diseases, diseases caused by insects and nematodes, nonparasitic diseases, and diseases of undetermined origin before going into the methods of disease control. Refers to tomato as "fruit."Item Fertilizer recommendations for Washington.(UNKNOWN, 1945-08) UnknownExtension bulletin 338, done by the agricultural extension service of the institute of agricultural science at the State College of Washington, Pullman, Washington. Includes many charts of data, based on crop.Item First annual western states farm forum.(UNKNOWN, 1966-01-17) UnknownHosted by the Yakima Chamber of Commerce Agriculture Committee. "...A forum organized to foster better understanding, greater goodwill, and mutual respect between farmers and businessmen." Program includes all presentations and presenters. Back cover has Officers of the Yakima Chamber of Commerce and a list of members of the 1966 Western States Farm Forum Committee, Agricultural Committee.Item Five farmers' foes: Canadian thistle, sow thistle, bull thistle, Chinese thistle, and Russian thistle.(UNPUBLISHED, 1894) Craig, MosesThis bulletin no. 32, from 1894, was done by the Oregon agricultural experiment station. Includes an illustration of each thistle, and how to prevent and kill the weeds.Item Food and civilization.(UNPUBLISHED, 1964-05-17) Luce, Henry R.; Murphy, William B.; Kerr, ClarkFrom a speech made during a symposium on 'Food and Civilization' at the University of California School of Medicine. Includes the introductory remarks by the president of the Campbell Soup Company, William B. Murphy. Speech is about the possibility of making starvation obsolete by dealing properly with abundance.Item Improved method for making cider vinegar.(UNKNOWN, 1926-06) Vandecaveye, S. C.Bulletin No. 202, produced by the State College of Washington agricultural experiment station in Pullman, Washington Division of Bacteriology.Item Invitation, bid, and acceptance - sale of government property - Ahtanum Farm Labor Supply Center.(UNPUBLISHED, 1948-04-08) Preston, Howard A.Includes description and conditions of sale and a blank statement of bidder form.Item Irrigated Pastures for Central Washington.(UNKNOWN, 1945-01) Law, Alvin G.; Singleton, H. P.; Ingham, I. M.Extension Bulletin 319, done by the agricultural extension service of the State College of Washington in Pullman, Washington. Covers a variety of crops and how to prepare the land for irrigation.Item The Joseph idea, the drought, and the American consumer.(UNPUBLISHED, 1936-08-19) Wallace, Henry A.A speech given by the secretary of agriculture at the Great Lakes Exposition in Cleveland, Ohio on the idea of storing a surplus of crops "to be used when the drought years came" versus the way things were currently done in the United States.Item Keeping up on the farm outlook.(UNPUBLISHED, 1950-10-31) Hobson, KarlExtension circular no. 165, done by the Institute of Agricultural Sciences for The State College of Washington. Gives information and forecasts of trends in farming.Item National Farm Chemurgic Council Bulletin: United States imports as possible new crops for experimentation and large scale domestic cultivation.(National Farm Chemurgic Council., 1941-10) McMillen, Wheeler; Willkie, Robert T.; Kolachov, Paul J.List of plants that were commonly purchased in America, but imported, including, among others, alfalfa, almonds, cloves, and olive oil.Item Overcoming world hunger: report of the thirty-fourth American Assembly.(UNPUBLISHED, 1968-11-03)Final report made after the three-day assembly. Includes a list of all the participants and information about the American assembly, with participation from Dwight D. Eisenhower.Item Pacific Northwest Wheat 1949 by varieites.(UNPUBLISHED, 1949) UnknownDone by the U. S. Department of Agriculture Bureau of Agricultural Economics Agricultural Estimates in cooperation with the Oregon Wheat Commission and Washington State Department of Agriculture. Includes statistical information on varieties of wheat.Item Pasture irrigation.(UNPUBLISHED, 1935-05) Smith, L. J.; Grunder, Maynard S.; Garver, Harry L.Bulletin No. 313, done by the State College of Washington agricultural experiment station in Pullman, Washington. It is part of a series "dealing with the use of electricity on the farm." Includes diagrams.